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Spring Clean Your Backup: 7 Steps to Ensure Data Integrity

Spring Clean Your Backup: 7 Steps to Ensure Data Integrity

As the seasons change, it's not just our homes that could use a good spring cleaning – our digital spaces need attention too. Just like tidying up your physical space, maintaining your data backup is essential for keeping your information safe and secure. Here are seven simple steps t …

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Why Offsite Backup isn’t a Maybe – it’s a Must

Why Offsite Backup isn’t a Maybe – it’s a Must

IT and business leaders understand that backing up data is essential, but they often overlook the need to include offsite backup in their recovery plans. Offsite backup isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s vital for delivering the recoverability and redundancy that every organization needs …

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Measuring Backup Performance - Essential KPIs to Track

Measuring Backup Performance - Essential KPIs to Track

Measuring your backup performance may sound like a daunting task. But it doesn't have to be. Once you know what you need to track and understand how your backups are performing, it's actually quite painless. That's where Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) come in handy. They help you m …

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Is Your Data Recoverable? A Halloween Tale

Is Your Data Recoverable? A Halloween Tale

Once upon a midnight dreary, in a not-so-distant office space, the team of Health Corp started their day. It was October, and the ominous holiday of Halloween coincided with their long-awaited celebration of Halloween – an office party that they won’t forget anytime soon.

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Upgrading with Confidence - Windows Server 2012 R2 End of Life

Upgrading with Confidence - Windows Server 2012 R2 End of Life

With every day that passes, the inescapable end draws closer: On October 10, 2023, the time has come when Windows Server 2012/R2 will finally lose its support. Windows Server 2012 r2 end of life has profound implications for the security of your IT infrastructure and the smooth runnin …

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Mitigate Human Error in Data Protection

Mitigate Human Error in Data Protection

On any day of the week, we can open the news and see a headline about the latest hack, ransomware attack, or data breach. This fuels the perception that threats to your data are primarily external. While less headline-worthy, the truth is that human error is the overwhelming cause of …

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7 Things You Must Do On World Backup Day

World Backup Day

It’s that time of year again when you hear a lot from data protection companies, touting the importance of World Backup Day. Is it important for you? Like many things, it’s all about what you make of it. But If you aren’t turning this day into a useful tool for your business, honestly …

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Microsoft 365 Backup Best Practices

Microsoft 365 Backup Best Practices

In the modern business landscape, cloud-based SaaS applications such as Microsoft 365 have become indispensable collaborative tools for organizations – whether they are an IT provider, corporation, or non-profit. They facilitate communication and productivity regardless of where emplo …

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Navigating The Newest Data Privacy Regulations

Navigating The Newest Data Privacy Regulations

Businesses are changing. Digital transformation and other modern initiatives are creating new ways to deliver value. As organizations worldwide integrate new technologies, they generate, store, and share far more data than ever before. As a result, regulating private and sensitive dat …

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Is it necessary to back up Microsoft 365 data?

Is it necessary to back up Microsoft 365 data?

The flexible and collaborative nature of SaaS tools like Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office 365) is benefiting companies of all shapes and sizes, from small professional offices to large distributed enterprises. By moving productivity, communication, and collaboration workloads …

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